This event will focus on the innovations in the natural gas and hydrogen infrastructure to deliver net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Speakers: Dr. Angela Needle and Gus Badran
Please share this event as it is is Free for none CFA UK society members (see link).
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Speaker: Dr Angela Needle
Angie is Director of Strategy at Cadent Gas where she is responsible for creating the transformational strategies for the company, including decarbonisation plans for the UK and hydrogen projects across residential and industrial heating.
Prior to that she held a range of positions at Centrica, including heading up their contracting strategy that supports 10,000 British Gas engineers. She also created and ran the business energy-services strategy and took responsibility for all energy supply and services customer propositions.
Before Centrica, lots of fun was had at Anglian Water, including managing sewer networks, heading up an R&D programme and being responsible for all thing’s energy, carbon and climate change.
Angie is a big advocate of both environmental and diversity issues and a Founder of the Women’s Utilities Network.
Speaker: Gus Badran
Investment manager (with 15 years’ combined experience in operations, product and business development within fast growing Climate/Cleantech and Technology) focusing on Cleantech, Industrial, Meditech and Technology companies who are seeking to raise venture and growth capital.
Graduated from Imperial College London in Material Science & Engineering and also received a post graduate diploma in Manufacturing: Management & Technology and Control Systems from the Open University and the University of Sheffield respectively.
Chairman and founder of the Innovation Investing Special Interest Group (IISIG) within the Chartered Finance Analyst (CFA) UK Society.
IISIG shares ideas and practices on the following:
- How to identify disruptive innovation for a particular market or society.
- How to invest and valuate start-ups and early stage companies.
- How companies operate and managed.
- Business case studies.
Planned events Sep 2021- July 2022:
- Venture Capital (Fund of Funds). 13-09-2021
- Carbon Capture from the Atmosphere. 27-09-2021
- Energy (Hydrogen) Storage and Electrolyser. 04-10-2021
- ESG for Start-ups. 11-10-21.
- Valuing young companies. 18-10-2021
- Fundamentals of Climate Change
- Fraud in Asset Management (Private Equity and Impact Investing). 01-11-2021
- Boards. 8-11-2021
- Setting Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory Royalty Rates in the Biopharmaceutical Sector. 15-11-2021
- Tidal (not wave) Energy. 29-11-2021
- Christmas Social (Virtual). 6-12-2021
- Energy (Heat) storage for the domestic market. 17-01-2022
- Venture Capital in Africa. 31-01-2022
- Innovation in De-carbonisation of heat. 7-02-2022
- Drowning prevention innovation and challenges. 25.7.2022
Looking forward to see you all.
Kindest regards
Gus